Harold Geneen
Harold Geneen
Harold "Hal" Sydney Geneen, was an American businessman most famous for serving as president of the ITT Corporation...
art real smell
The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.
running reality men
When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.
leadership business reality
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality
explained performance stands ton
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.
growth happiness name secret
Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.
hate last life longer rest spend trying
If you keep working you'll last longer and I just want to keep vertical. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
decision too-late late
Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
business people management
What you manage in business is people
business management economics
It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away
jobs office desks
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
decision management seeing
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
work management manage
Management must manage!
work achieve results
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
president clean-desk vices
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.